Category: Journal

The technological tools that were invented to connect us (i.e. Cellphones) are now the tools that disconnect us.

Steve Jobs used to go when he was 14 years old (8th grade-1969) every Tuesday night to Hewlett Packard research lab in Palo Alto trying to write programs on the HP4100.

Bill Gates used to go to IBM with his uncle when he was 12 (6th grade) to program whenever he had a chance. He opened his first software company at 15 (9th grade) called “Traf-O-Data” and his revenue was $20,000.

Warren Buffet read every book of finance in the public library near his house at the age of 12 (6th grade).

If your child is sitting playing with his nose Tuesday nights, don’t expect to see him/her the genius of the future.

The future starts now… No matter what their age is.

40% of the normal-weight population has the same metabolic diseases as the obese population. Being fit doesn’t mean being healthy.

Exercise and healthy diet are important for everyone.

“If there is no enemy within then the enemy from outside can do you no harm” African proverb

Every year, humans slaughter about 60,000,000,000 lives for consumption.
That is almost 10 times our total population. We are living-things’ worst nightmare. We need to rethink our relationship with the natural world because organisms that act like us don’t survive very long. They are mostly end up being called “plagues”. They pass for a short time with their devastation.

400,000 born a day
160,000 die a day
240,000 more mouths to feed a day

There is no time for partisan politics compared to the challenges ahead.

4 out of 5 almonds in the world come from California …. A $10Billion industry. A branch of that industry is bees. 10 billion bees are imported to the farms every year to help pollinate them. Many die because of pesticides used on the trees. To us it is economy. To the bees, it is the holocaust.

People’s resistance to change is the biggest hurdle to technological advancement.

Proof: people still are using credit cards. Samsung and Apple have already deployed the next technology to pay by phone.

Sending documents by email in 2016 is frowned upon like printing documents in 2006.

“The dance reveals the spirit of the country in which it takes root”. Martha Graham (1894-1991) American modern dancer
Painting by George Bingham titled “The Jolly Flatboatmen” 1846 America